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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Edwards, Lois Hemmeter |
| Title, Analytic | A Famous Physician's Biography |
| Journal Title | Germanic Genealogy Journal |
| Date of Publication | Summer 2006 |
| Volume ID | 9 |
| Issue ID | 2 |
| Location in Work | 19-20, ill. |
| Language or Document Type | English |
| ISSN | 1548-3150 |
| Abstract | Recounts the author's search for the name of an ancestral village for the Hemmeter family of Cleveland, Ohio. She discovered a brief biography of Dr. John C. Hemmeter of Balitmore, a renowned 19th-century physician connected with Johns Hopkins. Hemmeter's father had come from Baiersdorf, Bavaria, at the same time as the author's family came to Cleveland. In the regional state archives in Nuremberg, the author discovered that her family actually came not from Baiersdorf, but from the hamlet of Weiler bei Rohr. But the clue had narrowed the possibilities and identified a region to research. "Fortunately, an emigration index existed from that region." Later, upon writing to the pastor in the village of Rohr and receiving a birth record, she learned that the family had moved to Rohr from the town of Thalmaessing, south of Nuremberg, where she was able to make more discoveries. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Genealogy/ Family history/ Hemmeter/ German Americans -- Maryland/ German Americans -- Ohio/ Bavaria |